What's shutting down my batch files?

Hello @raywood,

raywood said:

I have several batch files running. Each is waiting for me at a Pause command.

Is it just the pause command, or is it for example something like echo ^>Press ANY key to EXIT . . . & pause >nul & Exit ?

It could be at the time of closure, that the command window was Active, and when you pressed a key, that triggered the closure of the Batch file. It is the focus of the Keyboard that could be the cause !

Please post the response to this command

Code:

PowerCfg -a

If you have S0 Modern standby then it would seem to be responsible if your display has been allowed to go off [by its Power Options setting] at any time before you return to look at those batch files.
I disabled S0 Modern standby ages ago. I don't recall it actually closing batch files [I thought it merely stopped them progressing].


All the best,
Denis

In that case, you are not being affected by S0 Modern standby so you can ignore everything I wrote.

Before turning away to work on something else, I suggest you look in the batch files' windows to check that they have reached the Pause commands that you expect.
I wonder if, instead of reaching your Pause commands, they are crashing.

Denis

Windows logs many things but there is, from the user's perspective, little logic in what's covered. It might be, but this is only speculation, that Windows records things that its own processes need to refer to to do their jobs - so a network connection to the internet is recorded so that other Windows components can use that to decide whether to get out of bed or not.

Many PowerShell events are recorded.
I've never looked for or stumbled across any records of batch file execution.

This is just an idea:
1 Set up your Taskbar clock to show seconds - Hide or Show Seconds on Taskbar Clock - TenForumsTutorials
2 Set up your phone to start videoing your display - make sure it captures the Taskbar & the clock display.
3 Go about your normal activities including starting the batch files.
4 Turn away to do something else.
5 When you find that the batch files icons have disappeared, play back the video to get the time of disappearance.
6 Open Event viewer, Custom views, Administrative events [which is a poncy way of saying, All events] and look for records at the time the icons disappeared.
7 If you see anything that seems worthwhile, note [from the lower part of the window] its Log name, Source & EventID.

8 Come back and discuss what you've found. It will be pot luck if I or another contributor have any useful observations to make about what you've discovered. Event viewer interpretation skills generally depend on having torn your hair out investigating specific problems before.


Best of luck,
Denis